Where have all the good rock n pop bands gone?

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  1. George Kerr

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    It must be an age thing, as I'm an old giffer but the best bands (Rock, blues & pop) were from the sixties and an odd few from the 1970s.
    I was fortunate enough to see this lot live.
    Beatles
    Stones
    Animals
    Kinks
    Yardbirds (with Beck & Page)
    Casey Jones & his Engineers
    The Pirates
    Four pennies
    Searchers
    Free
    Chicken Shack
    Beach Boys
    Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
    John Mayall Bluesbreakers
    Big Brother & the Holding Company (sadly no Janis Joplin)
    Unit Four + 2
    The Fortunes
    Hedgehoppers Anonymous ( anybody remember them?)
    Fairport Convention
    10 Years After
     
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    You can’t call that music mainstream now which is a shame ,must be 20 years since I listened to radio 1 the music today is *****.
     
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    Deep purple wow thanks must give that a listen.
     
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    Remember watching squeeze at limit club in their heyday great band and writers.
     
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    Someone said it’s the Crystals meeting the Undertones.? I thought it was more Ronettes & Buzzcocks, myself.? :cool:
     
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    Saw them last weekend, excellent as usual
     
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    Sigur Ros were formed in '94!
     
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    I was in a band 20 years ago that listed them as an influence on our MySpace page.
     
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    Let’s not forget the mighty Saxon , just completed a US tour new album this year
     
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    Been listening a few years now, very good live as well
     
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    Saw a kid in a Saxon t shirt today in Headingley. Would have been about 18-21 with a few other rock kids.

    I'm more punk than metal, but I do enjoy some of their stuff. They were one of the NWOBHM bands, alongside Iron Maiden & Motorhead I'd put them in there. Missed a bunch of other important bands in that scene. I was never into it at the time, but there is some great music here & there.
     
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    There's always been good and bad music throughout rock/pop, and it will continue. It's just that a lot of people latch onto the zeitgeist of the time of their youth. Then maybe with age some like to look down on younger generations.
    I love, and hate music from all era's.
     
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    Idles are good.
    Khruangbin (totally different)
    Calexico & Yo La Tengo are making great LPs
    Loads of upcoming jazz artists from Leeds, like Fergus Quill.
    Loads of people you haven't heard of, unless you give them a listen.
     
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    Tears for fears
    Pet shop boys
    Billy Idol
    Love the 80s soul music
     
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    Went to see tears for fears recently still sound as good as they did in the eighties what a talented duo they were.
     
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    Yep seen them a couple of times live. Can’t get how that little lad gets so much power in his voice.
    Some absolute belters.
     
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    They've gone where it's harder to find, but they're still very much around. Just don't expect to discover them when you turn on FM radio or hear them walking out and about anymore.

    Based on your list, give the following a try;

    Wunderhorse
    The Blinders
    Last Dinner Party
    The Smile (half of Radiohead)
    Fontaines DC
    Sorry
    The Mysterines
    Demob Happy

    The industry's fractured and big labels largely daren't take chances on something that can't be marketed globally to atonal sheep.
     
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    That’s my career down the Swanny. Even Reds fans have no time for ‘one of their own’..?
    Time to write more sad songs.. :)
     
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    Khruangbin are incredible, although Glass Beams are similar. Can't work out of they're a rip off of them crossed with Goat, but it's fun either way!
     
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